I updated SimpleSlides just now. In v1.0, you had to give an id="1" to the first slide and increment that for each slide afterwards – as well as add a class="slide". No more! Now, just add a class of “slide” to each slide and the position stuff is done automagically. Grab it on Github if you so desire.
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Techlaunch
Techlaunch is NJ’s first startup accelerator and it’s living on Montclair State University’s campus. They just launched their site and are taking applications until the end of May. If you have a team, an idea/product, and are up to the challenge of a 12-week intense startup bootcamp, apply today!
This is a great opportunity for the local tech community and for MSU, and I’m excited to be on their roster of mentors for their inaugural cohort.
Dan Shipper: “I’m Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code”
Some of the simplest coded tasks, to the non-developer’s eye, involve the most sophisticated of development work. If you’re not a developer and you want a good eye-roll, trivialize your developer’s worth by telling them that you’re sure the task is simple and can be done quickly.
Stephanie Rieger: The Best Browser is the One You Have with You
“Don’t prevent mobile users from accessing your desktop site.”
Ugh! I hate when a mobile site doesn’t let me access the desktop version!
Rieger also notes the annoyance of sharing articles from a mobile device. It’s not uncommon for someone to send me a news tip from a mobile site, and it shows up all wonky on my desktop browser. Of course, I do not share it because there is no easy way to get to the desktop version of said article.
I think this is something all site developers think about already. If you don’t, then you’ve got some reading, learning, and ‘splaining to do.
Milk is shutting down its first "test" app, Oink, after 3 months
Mark Bittman: The Human Cost of Animal Suffering
I like Bittman’s position on the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses, not just because I’m a vegetarian, but also he doesn’t lecture the reader and demand they stop eating meat entirely; he just wants them to eat less.
Another great point Bittman brings up is how humans separate themselves from the slaughter process and, therefore, many do not think of the cruelty when they’re eating the product of it – the programmer in me thought of encapsulation, which slaughterhouses obviously implement by keeping the killing to only a handful of actual employees.
Do I think there will ever be a time where people stop eating meat? I don’t know. I think we need to learn to stop making decisions about how other people live or die (women’s health, military practices, etc) first, before we can ever learn to stop making decisions about how other animals live or die.
I’m not a “curator”
This. This. This.
I understand the idea of standards and their importance in media; I just don’t understand why would anyone want to confuse their readers by preceding attribution links with symbols better left to be used by musicians temporarily without a name.
Also, I still don’t understand the difference between “hat tip” and “via.”
College Majors That Put Women on Equal Footing With Men
Notice that the only major showing women with a larger median salary than men is in Information Technology. Also, the wage gap grows as workers get higher-level degrees.
A List Apart: Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature “CSS3,” a Kitten Dies
An interesting read on weeding out the proprietary CSS rules from CSS3 specs.
PS: Every time you kill a kitten, a kitten dies. Let’s stop killing kittens in our blog post titles.
Do it for the kittens.
WordPress hooks database
An impressive collection of WordPress hooks, scraped for our convenience and organized by version.
